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Logwall, Georgia

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Forsyth census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31029. It stands on Rocky Creek. The Survey maps it on the Forsyth quadrangle.

Logwall within Monroe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

276 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 276 fires within 5 miles of Logwall between 1992 and 2020, burning about 773 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 41 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning146
Arson/incendiarism41
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Equipment and vehicle use23
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Smoking11
Natural11
Recreation and ceremony6

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
20 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2019Debris and open burning17 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020MONROE002
17 September 1999Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020MONROE005
15 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-MONROE-012

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Logwall: 5 prospects, 2 occurrences, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
C M Sutton ProspectMicaProspect
Calloway MineMicaPast Producer
Coleman ProspectMicaProspect
E B Butler ProspectMicaProspect
Marie Vaughn DepositMicaOccurrence
Old Callaway ProspectMicaProspect
U.S.Fuller ProspectMicaOccurrence
Worsham & Goodwin ProspectMicaProspect

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

2 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Logwall in 2 storm reports between 2020 and 2023: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2020Thunderstorm WindLogwall$5,000The public and the Highway Department reported several trees blown down along Sutton Road to around the intersection of Highway 83 and Stokes Store Road.
March 2023Flash FloodLogwall-The public reported Abernathy Road closed and the Emergency Manager reported Byars Road and Edwards Road closed due to high water on Champion Creek. In addition to the 1 to 1.5 inches of rain that fell the previous day, radar estimates indicate that 3 to 4 inches fell on March 26, resulting in the flash flooding.

Every storm recorded in Monroe County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Box Ankle1.6 miles14
Higgins Mill3.4 miles11
Brighton Heights4.0 miles14
Brighton Mills4.1 miles14
Cabaniss4.6 miles14
Socrates (historical)4.7 miles11
Maynard4.8 miles14
Blount4.9 miles14

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122569507The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 343066. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.